[slingnow]

I had the same reaction. Not much explaining, no justification for the tooling decisions, pushing more undocumented code to pypi because why not, "I saw this other package do this", etc.

I guess it's great if you're just looking for a shortcut to push something up to pypi, but my guess is someone new to it won't really understand what's going on other than some vague sense that they're following "best practices".

And then I imagine that same person will go on to write another article like this, and on and on we go!

[kanonade]

Then go write your own opinionated article on your blog. For myself, I was already thinking about trying to develop a package and this gives me a nice starting point for doing so even if I don't use all the same tools to do it.